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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26-Jan-18 15:54, Rich Alderson
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<pre wrap="">Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:35:18 -0600
From: Hunter Goatley <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:goathunter@goatley.com"><goathunter@goatley.com></a>
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<pre wrap="">On 1/26/2018 2:22 PM, Timothe Litt wrote:
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<pre wrap="">BLISS would have done better in the outside world, except for the
DECision to price it higher than the market would bear.
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<pre wrap="">Indeed! I was fortunate to get access to BLISS in college thanks to
DEC's CSLG program, but it was their second-most expensive compiler
license (after Ada), so virtually no one outside of DEC used it. When
they originally released Alpha, they weren't planning to make the BLISS
compiler available, but I and others worked to try to get DEC to change
that. As I'm sure you know, in the end, they released it with a free
license for both VAX and Alpha (and Itanium), but it was far too late
for most people to have any interest in adopting it. I still do some
BLISS coding, but I'm one of the few that I know of still doing it.
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In fact, when Digital announced the free licensing for BLISS-32 and BLISS-16,
I immediately got in touch with our contact within Digital (help me out, Tim,
what was Dick's last name? the guy who helped XKL get the 36-bit stuff and
introduced you and me in Marlboro) about getting BLISS-36 released the same
way. There may not have been a large market for it, but I wanted to make sure
that XKL's customers had access if they wanted it.
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Dick Greeley. Former product manager in HPS, by then in the
corporate licensing group.<br>
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